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New and Featured Clinical Education Products - October 2022
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Updated Resource that Helps Clinicians Address Physical and Emotional Issues Faced by Chronically Ill Patients
About Adjusting to Chronic Conditions with Education, Support and Skills
ACCESS is a psychosocial intervention specifically designed to address the physical and emotional issues faced by chronically ill patients. The goals of the intervention are to empower individuals via patient-centered education, teach self-management strategies, and use goals and action plans to increase skill use and success.
- Involves six active treatment sessions (weekly meetings of 45-60 minutes for session 1, and 30-45 minutes for sessions 2-6).
- Content in sessions 3-6 is flexible, allowing the flexibility to spend more than one session on focused skills, as needed.
- Follow-up booster sessions (10-to 15-minute phone calls) are used to help solidify changes over time.
- The length of the total treatment (active treatment and boosters) is 16 weeks.
- Published 2015 | Updated 2022
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About Us
The mission of the South Central MIRECC is to promote equity in engagement, access, and quality of mental health care for Veterans facing barriers to care, especially rural Veterans. The South Central MIRECC strives to promote and celebrate a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion among our staff, across our sites, and in the work we do to improve mental health care for rural and other underserved Veterans. New and featured clinical education product updates are produced by the SC MIRECC Education Core. Email us at VISN16SCMIRECCEducation@va.gov. Visit us at https://www.mirecc.va.gov/VISN16/index.asp.
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